by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Feb 2, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding
Source: The Guardian news article (Feb. 2nd, 2021) – Rising sea levels seem one of the more distant threats of the climate emergency, unless you live in a house close to the high tide mark or on an eroding cliff. The annual rise of 3-mm (0.12 in) does not seem...
by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Jan 26, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding
Source: Reuters news article (25th Jan. 2021) – Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures and sea-level’s ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice...
by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Jan 21, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding
Source: NZ Stuff news article (21st Jan. 2021) – Living by the beach isn’t particularly relaxing when the sea could wipe out your home in less than two decades. When Jo Poland bought a coastal property at Port Waikato in 1994, she looked at the ocean through...
by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Jan 17, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding
Source: CGTN news article (17th Jan. 2021) – Despite reductions in global carbon emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the world’s oceans in 2020 were the warmest in recorded history, according to a new study just published in the journal Advances in...
by brent@geohazassess.co.nz | Jan 5, 2021 | Climate change, Coastal Flooding
Source: Radio NZ news article (dated Jan. 5th, 2021) – A valuation company said that coastal properties remain popular as buyers fail to heed dire forecasts about the effects of future climate change. A report released in December by Deep South National Science...
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